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Audit of prescribed nicotine replacement therapy to hospital inpatients who smoke

Barbara A Hawkshaw and Yeqin Zuo
Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06557.x
Published online: 3 January 2005

Barbara A Hawkshaw,* Yeqin Zuo


  • 1 Health Promotion Unit, Central Sydney Area Health Service, Level 9 North, King George V Building, RPAH, Missenden Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2050
  • 2 Cancer Institute NSW, Sydney, NSW



  • 1. WHO evidence based recommendations on the treatment of tobacco dependence. Copenhagen: WHO, 2001. Available at: www.who.dk/document/e73285.pdf (accessed Nov 2004).
  • 2. Rigotti NA, Munafo MR, Murphy MFG, Stead LF. Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 2002. Oxford: Update Software; 2002.
  • 3. Central Sydney Area Health Service. Smoke free environment policy. Sydney: CSAHS, 1999.
  • 4. National Centre for Classification in Health. The International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM). Fourth edition. Volume 5. Sydney: NCCH, 2004.
  • 5. Guide for the management of nicotine dependent inpatients. Summary of evidence. Sydney: NSW Health Department; 2002. Available at: www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/g/pdf/nicotine_sum.pdf (accessed Nov 2004).

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